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Melquiades Raagas, Et Al. vs. Octavio Traya, Et Al.

MELQUIADES RAAGAS and ADELA LAUDIANO RAAGAS, plaintiffs-appellees, vs. OCTAVIO TRAYA, MRS. OCTAVIO TRAYA and BIENVENIDO CANCILLER, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-20081 | 1968-02-27

D E C I S I O N 


CASTRO, J.: 

The complaint filed on April 1, 1960 with the Court of First Instance of Leyte (civil case 2749) by the spouses Melquiades Raagas and Adela Laudiano Raagas against Octavio Traya, his wife, and Bienvenido Canciller, alleges in essence that on or about April 9, 1958, while the latter was "recklessly" driving a truck owned by his co-defendants, along the public highway in MacArthur, Leyte, the said vehicle ran over the plaintiffs' three-year old son Regino, causing his instantaneous death. The plaintiffs ask for actual damages in the sum of P10,000, moral, nominal and corrective damages in a sum to be...